Talk:The Jamies

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The Jamies' style was very distinctive - much more like madrigal singing than doo-wop. Several months after "Summertime Summertime" I remember a disk jockey on a local (Peoria, Illinois) radio station state that the Jamies had switched from pop to gospel music. Many, many years later I was on vacation, far from home, and on the car radio I happened to tune in a gospel music station, and they played a song by the Jamies. I remember only that it had the word 'lamb' in the title. There is no question that it was the same group because they had that same unique sound. I was unable to identify the station, and since then I have searched high and low for gospel recordings by the Jamies to no avail.

If any reader has information on gospel recordings by the group, please post it here. 76.247.167.253 (talk) 00:28, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Hobby Horse
Hobby Horse was probably an alias of Mary Hopkins as she is heard singing very loud on their/her version of "Summertime Summertime" from 1972. 83.83.119.239 (talk) 21:21, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Do you mean Mary Hopkin?76.199.0.117 (talk) 23:07, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

The song's unique longevity
The song was a huge hit in the NYC area, Summer, 1958. Then something unique happened: it came back the next summer, and every summer afterward until the Beatles and Stones changed rock too much for it to fit in anymore. There were no Golden Oldies then, only Summertime. Rock songs were for kids, and were discarded like comic books. When you went to college you were supposed to forget The Book of Love and listen to folk or jazz. We Baby Boomers, in 1962, were the first cohort that stuck with rock. Rolling Stone wasn't launched for four more years, and until then it was Downbeat, the jazz magazine, that was what America's Youth listened to. Murray the K didn't start the Oldies but Goodies concept for rock around 1968. That began the idea that rock had a history. So this was unique. Every summer, the NYC radio played the Jamies's Summertime as if it were new, for a good six or seven years, my whole childhood. I'm marking my last Finals right now, and I played this song to say summer was officially started. Profhum (talk) 20:50, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Arthur Blair and Jeannie Roy
I learned that Arthur Blair passed away in January 2020. I knew he was living in Fruitland, Idaho, but didn't contact him. He was 82 when he died. I assume he didn't pass away from COVID 19, as in January 2020, there were no COVID cases yet - at least in the Americas.

I knew Tom Jameson passed away in 2009.

Does anyone know if Serena and Jeannie Roy are still alive? Anyone have an idea? I think Jeannie might well be alive. Also, in "Summertime, Summertime", Jeannie had the highest pitch voice and she seems to overshadow all the others' voices. 71.204.178.176 (talk) 03:33, 7 December 2021 (UTC)